Word: buildings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Build New Chemical Plant...
...have seen, there is one indispensable foundation for the satisfactions of life--health. A young man ought to be a clean, wholesome, vigorous animal. That is the foundation for everything else, and I hope you will all be that, if you are nothing more. We have to build everything in this world of domestic joy and professional success, everything of a useful, honorable career, on bodily wholesomeness and vitality...
...Miller & Co. Inc. is that of many building investors throughout the country. A man has an itch to build. He borrows $100,000 at 7% interest and, because his credit is insecure, he pays a 10% bonus. For the sake of $90,000-which is paid out to him as he must compensate the building trades-he pays $17,000 in interest for the first year. This is practically 19% on the $90,000 he actually gets. The second year, and thereafter, he pays $7,000 interest on the $90,000, or 7.7%. Then, when his building is completed...
...York will be commonplace." Now this speaker was Louis Blériot, who, in July, 1909, performed the then unheard-of feat of flying across the English Channel. The Blériot monoplane of 1909 was something of a portent and Louis Blériot has been building aircraft ever since. Never till last week had he repeated his flight of 1909, either as pilot or passenger, "because until two years ago I considered that flying from Paris to London was dangerous." But now, as soon as he could raise two million francs, he would build another monoplane, with wings...
...statement was that his French consulting engineer and agent, Signor Bugatti, "the greatest automobile engineer in Europe," will produce a car twice as big as the Packard Eight. Its wheelbase will be 176 in., its speed 120 miles an hour. The Weyman Body Co. of London and Paris will build a factory at Indianapolis, Ind. Last week at least one newspaper of every large U. S. city carried a full page advertisement, whose streamer headline reads: HOW THE VISION OF ONE MAN revolutionized the trend, of American Automobile Design...